Gaikai Teases New Games Including 'Uncharted' And 'God Of War'

Head over to Gaikai's redesigned website and you'll get an eyefull of teased upcoming games for the cloud-based gaming service.

While details remain extremely scarce, images of cross-platform and Sony PlayStation 3 exclusives can be seen, including games like Mass Effect 3 and Uncharted.

Sackboy from LittleBigPlanet is there, and so is Naughty Dog's Nathan Drake.

In other words, big things are coming to Gaikai now that it's been acquired by Sony.

It's too early to say exactly what this means for gamers, or in what fashion these games will be available.

Gaikai isn't saying how the service will tie into Sony's platforms, noting only that "Games are uploaded to our data centers located broadly around the world. They are then streamed using high-end servers to internet-connected devices, similar to the way videos are streamed to your computer, except interactively. Our technology is such that we can stream the world's most graphically rich video games and other content instantly to almost any device, anywhere."

Does this mean you'll be able to play Uncharted 3 on your PC? On your mobile phone? Will the cloud-based gaming service help flesh out the scrappy catalog on the struggling PS Vita?

One way or another it certainly looks as though Sony will be branching out beyond its consoles.

It also looks as though Gaikai will be launching its post-Sony service prior to any launch of the PS4, though undoubtedly the PS4 will somehow integrate cloud-based gaming into its framework, possibly adding some serious server-side power to its next-gen gaming console, adding a whole new layer of speculation to the next console's spec sheet rumors.

Gaikai promises more information soon.

Cloud-based gaming is still in its infancy, of course - OnLive's epic downfall proves that well enough. But that doesn't mean the cloud isn't the future.

I can see pros and cons to a cloud-based future, quite frankly, but I hope Sony isn't moving ahead too quickly with this.

The Gaikai acquisition may indeed turn out to be a very smart, very bold move on Sony's part, but it's not a sure bet by any means. Not by a long shot.